The 15th annual Southern Music Issue celebrates the music of Tennessee in 176 pages of writing and art and 50 songs on 2 CDs.

Presenting Jim Dickinson’s unpublished memoir. Plus…

Rosanne Cash recalls her childhood; John Jeremiah Sullivan gets high on the upbeat; Amanda Petrusich listens to Bessie Smith. Additional essays by Jewly Hight, William Caverlee, Dom Flemons, Joe Hagan, and others. Poetry by Jamie Quatro. Fiction by Lucy Alibar.

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CD Tracks:

DISC ONE:

1.  That’s How I got to Memphis / Sid Selvidge

2.  Memphis Blues / Phineas Newborn, Jr.

3.  The Judgement / James Luther Dickinson

4.  Can You Blame the Colored Man / Gus Cannon

5.  Life Has It’s Little Ups & Downs / Charlie Rich

6.  Beware / Ann Peebles

7.  If I Had Wings / Matraca Berg

8.  Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie / John Hartford

9.  Take That Ride / Emmylou Harris

10. Known Only to Him / Elvis Presley

11. Nashville Sun / John Buck Wilkin

12. Sunny / Bobby Hebb

13. One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show / Big Maybelle

14. I Threw It All Away / Bob Dylan

15. 25 Years Ago / Tommy Womack

16. Where Would I Go / William Lee Ellis

17. These Are the Days / Human Radio

18. Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl / Bessie Smith

19. Ain’t Nobody’s Business but My Own / Tennessee Ernie Ford (with Kay Starr)

20. Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down / Fisk University Jubilee Singers

21. If You Come This Way Again / Tupper Saussy

22. Haunted Heart / Connie Smith

23. Monteagle Mountain / Johnny Cash

24. Lawyer Clark Blues / Sleepy John Estes

25. Just Walkin’ in the Rain / The Prisonaires

26. Something Within / Buddy & Julie Miller and the McCrary Sisters

 

DISC TWO:

1.  The Long Way Home / Rosanne Cash

2.  Travelin’ Prayer / Dolly Parton

3.  Crazy Women / Brandy Clark

4.  Tennessee / Carl Perkins

5.  Grand Ole Opry Song / The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

6.  Tamp / Otis Redding & Carla Thomas

7.  Chinatown, My Chinatown / Chet Atkins

8.  Shoobie Oobie / Rosco Gordon

9.  Suddenly You / Motel Mirrors

10. Deuce and a Quarter / The Bo-Keys

11. Last Man Alive / The Grifters

12. Chemical Fire / Van Duren

13. He Who’d Ask / George Cartwright

14. September Gurls / Big Star

15. Flyin’ Saucers Rock ’N’ Roll / Billy Lee Riley

16. He’s My Son (Just the Same) / O.V. Wright

17. Mercy Now / Mike Farris

18. Walk on By / Issac Hayes

19. B.B. Blues / B.B. King

20. Blue Fright / Tommy Hoehn

21. Rock in a Weary Land / Ashley Cleveland

22. Face of Jesus / Mark Marchetti

23. Have You Been Making Out O.K. / Al Green

24. Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends / Kris Kristofferson